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It had been four months since the last time they stepped into the LME halls. And only a little less than those four months since the last time he had seen her. Three months, twenty-nine days and a little more than nineteen and a half hours - to be exact. Way too long, for him anyway.

With a movie set in the steppes of Mongolia and rarely any contact to the civilisation - not even the native one - there was no way for him to keep in contact with her.

But that won't be for any longer.

Being back since yesterday morning he had had plenty of time to rest and get a hold of his erratic nerves. Jumping from being overexcited to impatient to annoyed to nervous to depressed to angry back to annoyed again and all over being totally exhausted by the long trip home, Ren couldn't wait any longer. He had to see her - asap.

Just one, hopefully short, meeting with the president and then Yashiro could go meddling around and getting a hold of her schedule. Meddling around was after all one of his best talents. If it was a wanted talent, is not always easy to answer though.

Walking through the entrance hall he noticed rarely anyone being there, only the two receptionists and a woman talking into her mobile phone.

"Good morning Tsuruga-san. Yashiro-san. Welcome back." They were greeted by one of the front desk ladies.

"Good morning, Oda-san. Watanuki-san. I hope you've been well."

"Very well. Thank you, Tsuruga-san. We have been instructed to inform the both of you that the meeting place with Takarada-shachou was relocated into studio 17."

Thinking nothing by it, both men said goodbye to the women and went their way to find one of the smaller dancing studios, the only one without any windows and the floor completely padded. Lory was probably trying some new entrance style or the like. Wouldn't be the first time that there was a need for padded floor.

Sebastian, Lory's assistant and man for every kind of work, awaited the two already in front of the studio entrance. Bowing deeply the taciturn aid knocked briefly on the door and opened the entrance with one swift motion. Revealing the president leaning against a wall, his arms crossed in front of his chest and staring at something still hidden from their view on the other side of the room. Before the men could say anything Lory held one finger to his lips, signing them to be quiet. Stepping inside they turned to look for whatever seemed to be so interesting.

If it wasn't for all the times Ren had witnessed Takarada's eccentricities he would probably look as wide-eyed as Yashiro did, but there were just two girls staring intently at each other… Yeah, one of them was pretty eye-catching with her long wavy hair in that bright red colour and what seemed to be a short white dress and high heels. The other one was beautiful with her pale skin and raven hair in a high ponytail, wearing a white blouse with a necktie as black as the fitted skirt. But she seemed to be in the defense, having her back against the wall and a posture like a rabbit cornered by a fox... Wait, wasn't that one Kotonami Kanae? LoveMe member no. 2 and best friend of LoveMe no. 1…?

Dread filled him as he tried to see the other one's face.

Sure as hell it had to be the one girl.

Don't mind me... just going over there... to that corner...